Today in the studio I continued the theme of Friday's work and had a go at another version of the Gayfield Trees composition. I thought it would be more interesting with a bit more colour so decided to do some underpainting in gouache (magenta and naples yellow), then I drew into it with charcoal and graphite stick, then added a little blue gouache.
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| Emerging Gayfield Trees copyright Aileen Grant |
In the composition, I had accentuated the angles of the buildings, and was also thinking about the link between the verticals - the columns, the trees and the building on Leopold Place. So I drew into it further.
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Emerging Gayfield Trees copyright Aileen Grant
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Actually, looking at this now, this looks kinda interesting - I particularly like the trees. But I was not happy with the colour and carried on, wanting to simplify the colour treatment, adding white and off-white acrylic and more drawing and black ink.
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Emerging Gayfield Trees copyright Aileen Grant
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I did a bit more to this before finishing, but it was too dark to photgraph...added another car in...so I feel as if I'm getting somewhere with my urban series. Almost ready to do a proper picture. But now I'm about to go up north for a few days, so I'll be having a little break from the urban scenes, back to the landscapes.
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